Stop Kingsnorth

I was interested to get an email today from the World Development Movement plugging their Stop Kingsnorth campaign. I expect Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the like to be campaigning against a new generation of coal-fired power stations, but for WDM to make this such a major campaign shows how serious they are about linking climate change to their core issue of tackling the underlying causes of poverty.

As they put it on the Stop Kingsnorth site:

Climate change is the greatest crisis facing humanity. Whilst rich countries are responsible for most of the emissions pumped into the atmosphere it is the poorest, most marginalised communities in the world that will be hit the hardest by climate change.

Kingsnorth power station alone will release more CO2 each year than Ghana. It will not use carbon capture and storage technology, and so will contribute to climate change that is already hitting the world’s poor first and hardest.

They also have a useful map indicating seven more planned coal-burning power stations.